The Center for Economic and Policy Research convened three leading economists to look at some of the major issues relating to current inflation in the United States. The event was open to the public.
The Covid-19 pandemic has posed the greatest test of international solidarity in many decades. At the outset, the political leaders of many western democracies pledged, ‘we are all in this together’. Yet the pandemic has imposed a severely unequal toll within societies and across the world. In advanced industrialized democracies, Covid-19 has exposed the special […]
This session will explore the extent to which the IMF's surcharge policy is consistent with its commitment to gender equality and a greener, smarter, and fairer COVID-19 recovery. Examples of increased discrimination against women, and other negative impacts of the surcharge policy, will be explored as well as actions to address the policy’s negative consequences.
In recent years, the international community has funneled large amounts of aid to Haiti with only select cases of success. Haiti has experienced several economic and political upheavals that have decimated its productive base, and it has benefited little from decades of market liberalization.So, why have the efforts of multilateral banks and donor governments had […]
This panel is part of the conference “After the Pandemic, the War,” which is being organized by the Tax Justice Network of Latin America and the Caribbean (Red de Justicia Fiscal de América Latina y el Caribe-RJF-ALC) and the Latin American Network for Economic and Social Justice (Red Latinoamericana por Justicia Económica y Social - Latindadd). Online […]
This event is part of the World Bank/IMF 2022 Annual Meetings and will be livestreamed here. The IMF is reviewing its quota formula for the first time in 15 years. This extremely consequential review of the “building blocks” of IMFgovernance structures needs to meet the challenges of the intersecting crises of our time and requires the voice […]
RSVP to join us on Tuesday, October 18 at 7:30 PM Eastern Time for our virtual educational forum: How Private Equity Makes Us Sicker. This forum will address the increasing role and implications of Wall Street investors—private equity—in the health care industry. Private equity has become a troubling menace as it seeks to extract outsized profits by […]
Dean and the Institute for New Economic Thinking partnered to produce a video series outlining how we can “Uncluck” America because America has been “clucked” for a long time. Well, except they didn’t use the term “Uncluck”…we’re sure you can use your imagination to figure out what flagged them as NSFW and prevented us from […]
Researchers, policy experts, and Ryan Prior, author of "The Long Haul: Solving the Puzzle of the Pandemic's Long Haulers and How They Are Changing Healthcare Forever,” a new book out on November 15, discussed the need for a federal response to Long COVID and other complex chronic conditions that have disabled millions of Americans. The […]
Emerging out of the COVID lockdown, inflation in the U.S. and globally has risen to the highest levels in 40 years. On December 2-3, PERI will host a conference to explore the causes of this global inflation spike. Conference participants will also provide critical perspectives on the austerity macroeconomic policies being implemented globally to control […]
The Center for Economic and Policy Research, Arab Watch Coalition, Boston University's Global Development Policy Center, the Institute for Policy Studies' Global Economy Program, and MADRE invite you to an important panel discussion on Capitol Hill. This panel will examine various policies implemented by the United States that are significantly impacting the world economy, which […]
